IOWA WOMEN’S ARCHIVES
UNIVERSITY OF IOWA LIBRARIES
IOWA CITY, IOWA
SARAH C. TAYLOR (1835-1907)
PAPERS, 1881-1907
13 items
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ACQUISITION: |
The papers (donor no. 207) were donated
by Ed Mincer in 1994. |
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ACCESS: |
The papers are open for research. |
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COPYRIGHT: |
»Copyright has been transferred to the University of Iowa. |
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PHOTOGRAPHS: |
»In folder 1. |
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PROCESSED
BY: |
Your name, year»Kristen Rassbach, 1997, Margaret Richardson, l998. |
Biography
Sarah Cosland was born in Boone County,
Indiana, on October 4, 1835. She
married Charles Taylor on December 25, 1854.
The Taylors and their daughter moved to Fremont County, Iowa, by way of
covered wagon in 1865, where they lived on a farm. In preparation for her medical practice Sarah Taylor read medical
texts with local physicians, then spent two years of study in Indianapolis and
attended the Women’s College in Chicago.
In 1881 she graduated from the Medical College, in Keokuk, Iowa and
began practicing medicine in Hamburg, Iowa.
She periodically continued her studies at Rush Medical College in
Chicago. She built a sanitarium in Hamburg,
operating it for over twenty years. Dr.
Taylor possessed the first x-ray machine in southwest Iowa. She died in 1907 of pneumonia.
Scope and
Content Note
The Sarah C. Taylor papers date from 1881 to 1907 and consist of 13 items: a photograph of
Taylor's medical diploma, a portrait of her, two letters from a patient in
1904, receipts for medicines Taylor ordered, a prescription, a birth record
listing all the births she attended in 1883, a short handwritten outline of her
life, and her obituary.